Monthly Archives: November 2006

Warning: No PC connectivity

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Allan Jackson

First of all, I would like to thank all the readers who responded to last week’s column about my RAM woes. To recap as briefly as possible, I own a two-year-old computer and had been unable to buy any extra … Continue reading →

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A bout with unplanned obsolescence

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Allan Jackson

Two years ago, having run out of names of Goon Show characters, I named my new desktop computer Canopus, after one of the Imperial Airways flying boats which used to visit Durban in the 1930s and 1940s. The machine is … Continue reading →

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Cellphone blues

Posted on November 17, 2006 by Allan Jackson

My ambition was to have the oldest working cellphone in the world and I was heading in the right direction, having bought my hardy little Nokia 3310 in Dublin in 2001. It had an alarm clock with snooze, its most-used … Continue reading →

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Photoshop Elements 5.0

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Allan Jackson

Adobe Photoshop is the undoubted heavyweight of the digital world and, if you’re a professional, it’ll probably be what you’ll use because it offers the ultimate in control over every pixel in your pictures. All that control comes with a … Continue reading →

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Ho-hum browsing

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Allan Jackson

In the last few weeks both Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation have released new versions of their Internet browsers. Internet Explorer 6 has been around for about five years, if my memory serves me correctly, and it had been looking … Continue reading →

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